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Trio who planned terrorist attacks on Blue Mountains, Lithgow face life in jail
Oct 18, 2017
SYDNEY, Australia – Two men and a boy who planned to launch guerrilla warfare in the Blue Mountains and to attack a number of targets including the Lithgow Correctional Centre, will be sentenced next month. Sulayman Khalid, who was 19 at the time of his arrest in December 2014, Jibryl Almaouie, who was 20, and a 14-year old boy all pleaded guilty in July to conspiring to commit an act of terror between November 7 and December 18, 2014.
Court documents show handwritten notes involving the three, found at Khalid’s home, discussed attacking an Australian Federal Police building in Sydney, mounting a guerrilla war in the Blue Mountains, and attacking the Lithgow prison.
The trio, now aged 23, 22 and 16, appeared before Justice Geoffrey Bellew at the Supreme Court in Parramatta earlier this month for submissions on sentencing.
